The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-10-14
What Michael Dayitt says.

Y ork from Ireland a little over two
weeks ago and from there went 10 Chi
cagO, from which city he continued his
Journey 10 Minneapolis, and on Wednes-
day OF last week, ne addressed the Gen 4
eraI Assembly OF the Knights of Labor !
which was then and still is in session 4
in that city. lie arrived IN Phiiadel- I
phia on his return on Friday last. and TO /
d reporter OF the Times said
Isn't it Wonderful how one can trav-
2! nowadays. y fortnight before I ad-
dressed the Knights OF LlbOr cOLveu-
tiou a. Minneapolis l addressed l., 900
people in the city of Cork on ;he day OF
my departure for America. Next Wed
nesday | sal! for Ireland and If / have
good luck l shall De back IN Cork just
one month from the day l started.
While / didn't come 10 tins country on
business connected with the League, |
never neglect an opportunity TO speak
good word for Ireland when the Oppor-
tunity presents itself. / came to this
country on business connected with the
manufacture of Irish wollens and l
came partly ;oT the benefit o: my health.
The trip has dOns me a great deal of
good and I'm going back home feeling
tip top.
II will return TO work with my usual
yIgor and throw all my energy into the
cause of Ireland. This is the trial year.
The outlook is very serious, indeed, but
! cannot say discOuraging or hopeless.
We Will have an anxious time of iJ until
the end OF the year. l believe that
within that period the success OF defeat
of our movements will be determined.
OF course | sinceiely believe that vic
tory is in s:OIe for us. The Tories are
about 10 put forth their greatest effort
- enforce the coercion law. They are
determined to push it forward at any
price, and we will have 10 call upon our
patience and perseverance 70 succeed.
There will Oe trying times. The cOer-
cion act takes away all personal liberty,
and the free people of ths United States
can form no idea of the tyranny of such
a measure. All liberty is abrOgated by
this act. For instance, if l make Il
speech and the government don't like IL
! am arrested, thrown at once into pGis-
on, given trial, convicted and senten-
ced TO six months close confinement in
desOlate cell, which has nothing but
narrow board tor q bed
1.-The American press has done much
( to ventilate the Ou;raGes perpe;uated by
what we call II the castle government.
We call it the castle government be
/ cause IL smanates from Dublin Castle.
/ or late The English newspapers have
sent men into Ireland 10 investigate
the evictionS. The Pan MdU Gazette
] SEM commission through ireland re-
! Gently and the publications OF their dis
I cOyerleS have done great deal toward
rOusing = sympathy In England for the
| people of Ireland. As TO the arrest OF
/ Mr.. Sullivan, the Lord Mayor of Dub
[ lin, who owns three or tour newspapers
and IS IN my opinion the foremost man
I III Ireland, the parties who caused his
/ arrest have put themselves in a ridIcu-
1 iOus attitude. The thing has been car
I TIed too far aud is bound TO have It's re-
/ action. The crisis Is near at hand.
| EvictiOns in Ireland can't go on as they
/ have in the past. Why. a few years ago
man with a large estate would evict
/ thirty or forty families and nobody
/ knew anything OF it outside or the lord
/ and masters boundaries. but IL Is not so
/ now. Eyiciions are known Of within a
few hours all over Ireland, and the Eng
/ hsh newspapers print the facts and so
/ DO Jhe American newspapers.
I'm going home next Wednesday and
/ I'm going 10 Jump ght into work, and
I expect 70 Jump In.O ALL" continued
+ Mr.. Davitt, with - gietm OF determine
tlCu IN his eve, There's plenty Of work
/ 10 do, and In going 10 do all I can for
/ Ireland. viii not he d-pTivsd OF nv
/ free speech while / breathe the breath
/ %! l..c. ! viii Stand up for nv own
/ rights AID the rights of my cOunLrymzu.
/ The sympathy of the E1glish public aud
/ The English press for Ireland's poor is a
I good omen and during my short visit in
America | have found that there is a
/ deeper interest here in ,reland's vel
3 fare al the present time than there ever
3 has been before I'm not given 10 talk
/ ing nonsense ab sut IJeland's woke and
dOWn-trOdleu Ireland and aIl tha, SOFT
OF thing. | look calmly and cooIy al
the prac.Ical side OF things and I can
ses silent Influence at work that wears
a brighter future for Ireland within a
short time The agricultural condition
or ireland this year has been worse thar
&c possibly ever was before. Landlords
in many Instances have been Obliged TO
reduce theiT rents fully sixty per cent.
'i'hSrs that should have done 80 have
rot, but they will lie obliged to see the
Justice OF such q reduction before long.
AS to the POOR evicted tenants OF
Ireland, II It was not for the very gener-
Gus monetary assistance that America
has given the League at home the evict-
ed people could not be cared for.
Every evicted family in Ireland receives
a weekly grant from the League and
power OF good has teen done with the
money that comes TO US from American
purses. might try TO describe here the
oEtrages that have been committed in
Ireland, but how could a group OF
Americans appreciate the situation
To understand it all one must see al
eviction, He'll never forget II -